What if you had been in an accident and got a lot of scars that way???? Would you still feel you should cover up???? It doesn't matter what put the scars there in the first place. It's just scars. I have seen people with burn scars from fires and i would never, ever tell someone like that to cover up in order to spare other people. And i would never, ever tell a self harmer to cover up to spare other people.
It's your body and your story. It's not your job to protect the world from seeing something that could be potentially disturbing. If people don't like it they can look away. Simple as that.
My arms look horrible. But i don't cover up. And it's my experience that most people are too polite to say anything anyway. I think there's enough hiding in self harm as it is.
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